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Island Island is an audio-visual installation exhibiting a utopian alternative to banal dispute intersections by re-processing the familiar reality. The island exists as an irrational hallucination, a dionysiac lust for appeasement or ruling and presents the city as being an isolated space made by its own rules, being created specifically out of inner oppositions and contradictions. The island is made out of an apparatus named Sound Dryer and a screening surface. The sound dryer is in fact a mechanical and conceptual transformation of the hair dryer, the electro-magnetic device for drying out the hair which was invented at the end of the 19th century in the first stages of the era of modernity. The internal electronic parts were taken out and replaced by tiny loudspeakers which produce directional, surround and precise sound, while the apparatus sits on the head. The practicable transformation of the sound dryer enables it to achieve its primary goal; disconnecting the subject from the ‘normal' existence and relocating it on the island. The completion of the disconnecting process from existence is done by the screening surface which allows, relatively to space, a comprehensive visual experience. The visual/aesthetical representation is of a recognized though strange images simultaneously – a deconstructed reality which was differently rebuilt. The deconstructive process of the audio-visual narrative permits utopian realization as a withdrawal to an imaginary space. Concept – Ido Govrin and Liora Belford Island presented at; Heara 11 Jerusalem, Israel · Laptopia #4 Tel-Aviv, Israel
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